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The baroque bassoon: form, construction, acoustics and playing qualities
Published 2011“…This study examines approximately 80% of known surviving baroque bassoons. Detailed internal measurements of thirty-six bassoons were made and graphs are constructed to compare bore designs. …”
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Different types of bowing technique for violin in the baroque and romantic eras / Izzat Syazwan Ab Halim
Published 2013“…This research will focusing on the importance of the bow stick on how it is used for producing sound through the types of bowing technique (stroke) on the violin in the era of Baroque and Romantic.…”
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Between two worlds: Baroque spectacle and enlightenment thought in the autos sacramentales by Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz (1648-1695)
Published 2012“…In doing so, she engaged with the mentalities of two continents and two historical periods: Europe and the Americas, and the Baroque and the Enlightenment.</p> <p>To demonstrate this, I provide a study of each of Sor Juana’s sacramental plays, alongside the <em>loa</em> which was written to accompany them. …”
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The pulpit and the brush: preaching and painting in seventeenth-century Spain
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"After Giambologna": The value of replication and material innovation in late Medicean Florence
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Giovanni Baglione
Published 1989“…Though he often crosses over the line into the Baroque, the idealism of his Tusco-Roman formation and fondness for angular lines constrain him from fully yielding to a dynamic disposition. …”
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In defence of aesthetic attachment: a response to Walter Benjamin's critique of Calderón de la Barca
Published 2022“…As an alternative, Benjamin champions the “ruined” — that is, fragmentary — aesthetics of German Baroque drama. <i>Ursprung</i> therefore recreates a neo-Baroque rhetoric which schools its readers into the position of detached interpreters — the objective being, of course, to hinder feelings of immersion. …”
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Piranesi's Campo Marzio plan : the palimpsest of interpretive memory
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Purism in the German language during the nineteenth century, 1789-1889
Published 1966“…These reactions - attempts to eliminate borrowed words and replace them with German expressions - have been relatively little studied and the references in histories of language usually apply to the baroque <u>Sprachgesellschaften</u> and one or two individual purists. …”
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The ethics of deception: secrecy, transparency and deceit in the origins of modern political thought
Published 2016“…A view that is in the very basis of some of the most characteristic features of Baroque art and that opened the door to some of the most transcendental cultural changes of the period, such as the creation of politics governed by reason rather than faith, the secularisation of social behaviour, and the emergence of the notions of individualism, privacy and freedom of thought. …”
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Comparison of sight reading dificulties for violin and piano / Glenn Suinggi
Published 2013“…Sight reading has been a very important skill to all musicians throughout the early days of music history (Reel, 2007). Throughout the baroque period, classical period, romantic period, the twentieth century, and the now, sight reading had been utilized in music making, whether it is during practice time or concerts. …”
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"Da fügte es der Himmel oder der Zufall". Religiöses Wissen bei Adalbert Stifter
Published 2020“…Based on overviews of Stifter’s personal belief and his education with the enlightened Benedictines from Kremsmuenster in Upper Austria, close readings of his short stories 'Das Haidedorf', 'Die Pechbrenner' and 'Kalkstein' shed new light on the role of biblical intertexts in Stifter, while readings of 'Der beschriebene Tännling', 'Der heilige Abend' as well as 'Der Waldgänger' and 'Das alte Siegel' recontextualise Stifter in the aftermath of Baroque Catholicism and Catholic Enlightenment. Whilst one chapter examines physico-theology as a distinctive, yet versatile category for the portrayal of nature in Stifter’s early and late work, an in-depth reading of his famous novella 'Abdias' focuses on the contemporary anti-Jewish discourse. …”
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Making theatre elastic: a practice-led PhD on performance research with Elastic Theatre, focusing on the body of work produced between 2005 and 2011
Published 2014“…A specific focus is placed on the body of work produced between 2005 and 2011, which comprises six performance outputs: Ophelia’s Song (2005-2006), Medea Made Medea (2007), The Magdalene Mysteries (2008), Medousa (2009), The Passion of Saints Sergius and Bacchus (2009) and Baroccata/Baroque Box (2010-2011). These productions have been informed by an overriding ethos, which is presented and reflected upon in the following chapters. …”
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The careers of Roger and Robert Morris, architects
Published 1989“…It also defines his unique architectural style, an unusually eclectic combination of standard English Neopalladianism and elements of Baroque, Neoclassicism and Gothic.</p> <p>Robert Morris was the first theorist of the Palladian movement in Britain and, as such, became a considerable influence on subsequent architects both in Britain and in America. …”
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Viennese keyboard music in the reign of Karl VI (1712-40) : Gottlieb Muffat and his contemporaries
Published 1974“…</p> <p>A large amount of Baroque keyboard music has been examined in preparation for this thesis, in order to place Muffat's work in a general framework rather than viewing it in isolation. …”
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